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Wise audio aphorisms

What can you guys come up with to summerize key aspects of this disease/hobby/love/art?

Let me begin with these:

1. If you hear no difference then there is no difference
2. Cost is the cloud that obscures the ears
3. Without love of music love of equipment is materialism
4. Pay attention!
chashmal
glenfihi
525 posts
 
The quality is remembered...long after the price is forgotten.

If you can hear the difference, pay the difference.
davetherave
95 posts
 
If you think your stereo is fatiguing, just wait 'til you get mono.
ngjockey
1,042 posts
 
"...you're confusing reality with realism."
gregm
3,407 posts
 
*"In audio, as everywhere else, perception is reality."

*"If it sounds good and measures well, it is good;
if it sounds good and measures bad, you're measuring the wrong thing"
macrojack
1,303 posts
 
Music is best preserved in bottles -- fire bottles.

You can't grind steak into hamburger and then reassemble the steak.

Bit by bit by bit the the magic is dissolved.
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